Gluten Hates Me

Friday, March 18, 2011

Seriously Gluten!? Come on!

So I worked all morning on my Gluten Hates You – Your Top Five Fave GF Products post. I thought I would come home tonight and finish up tagging everyone in the content and then publish.

That was until about 20 minutes ago. When I got glutened.

Grande Multi Grain Chips, purchased unknowingly by my hubby. He and I have grown to love other Grande Chip options, with their Gluten Free label proudly printed on the front.

So when I came home tonight and saw Parrish cooking super, I was super excited. He was busy making chicken tacos, and like a sweetie, he had put out chips and salsa. He knows that I’m always starving when I get home!

So I took a chip, dipped, and popped it in my mouth. THEN I looked at the bag.

So I searched the front of the package. Oh Sh*t. There’s no proud Gluten Free stamp on the front.

Flipped it over.

Great.

Awesome.

Well done Grande.

So I stood there with the remnants of the chip still in my mouth, and for an instant I thought about making myself throw up. Realizing that was ludicrous, I promptly sat down on the couch and started crying.

Not my proudest moment friends.

So I cried, for a hot minute. Then I got real with myself and took the pictures to write this post, because in about a half an hour, I’m not going to feel great but I wanted to let you know.

Three years gluten free, and it still gets me! Gluten is a sneaky bastard. That’s all I’m sayin’.

I'm new to being gluten-free and can totally feel your pain. Every day for me is a learning experience. I'm going to be the weird one that takes my own food to an event this weekend and have to politely decline their muffins, sandwiches and cookies. Thanks for your blog... it's nice to know I'm not the only one out there going through similar experiences.

Oh no! I hate the sneak attacks! The peanut butter always gets me....I found out that my father in law sits there with the jar dunking crackers in.....so many crumbs hiding inside! We now have two jars....one for my use only! Feel better!!!!

Oh you poor thing! That happened to me on Christmas day, I has cracked pepper rice crackers for the cheese board (selected especially for myself and the coeliac sister) but assumed that they were GF - until I was chewing on one and read the packet! Thankfully I didn't swallow and throughly scrubbed my mouth out so it turned out ok. Phew! But I agree, it's extra awful when gluten sneaks up on you in the comfort of your own home!